MR. T. A. B. BAILEY.
WELCOME BY MEMBERS OF THE BAR. The local members of the Bar assembled at the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court yesterday for the purpose of extending a welcome to Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., who has been appointed to the New Plymouth district, in succession to Mr A Crooke, S.M. There were present Messrs R. C. Hughes, 11 Hutchen, J. B. Roy, F. E. Wilson, A. H. Johnstone, A. Bewley, Ronald H. Quilliam, H. R. Billing, A. A. Bennett, S. W. Fitzlierbert, A. C. I.nwrey, and C. I{. Cicker, SubInspector Hutton, of the Police Department, was also present. Mr F. E. Wilson acted as spokesman and said the members of the profession and the TaranaHi Law Society were pleased to welcome Mr Bailey back to Taranaki, and hoped his stay in the district would be pleasant and profitable. He was sure that under his presidency the administration of justice would be satisfactory both to members of the Bar and the. general public. The expressions of apreciation of his work at Christchurch were an added guarantee in that respect. He assured Mr Bailey that he could rely on the support of the members of the Bar, whose happy boast was vthat their relations with the Bench had always been the most cordial, and they believed that when he left the district those rela/tions would still be existing. Mr Bailey, in acknowledging the cordiality of the welcome extended to him, said it was the peculiar turn of the wheel of fortune that had brought him to preside over the court in which he had taken his first case when practising at Inglewood nearly 25 years ago. He was pleased to return to Taranaki as he always liked the district, arid saw great possibilities in it. It had, however, in those days not been as kind to him as he had hoped and he had not got on as well as he thought he ought to. He saw great advances in the district since the time he left it, and particularly referred to the town of Eltham, which had grown from a small village to a prosperous town with all modern conveniences. He was pleased to hear of the cordial relation that had existed between the Bar and the Bench and hoped they would continue; to ex'ist while he administered justice in the courts of the district. He regretted severing his connection with Christchurch and North Canterbury, but trusted that when the time came for him to leave Taranaki it would be with the same good feelings which marked his departure from Christchurch. He did not propose to make any alterations in the mode of conducting business unless he found it necessary. He wanted, however, to be always accessible to the solicitors and to help them in their work, especially in regard to licensing matters. He referred to the large district he had presided over in North Canterbury, and said they had been particularly careful in the selection of houses and men in that district. He hoped also the junior members of the Bar would not look upon him as the inaccessible peTsoit that magistrates were sometimes imagined to be. He was prepared to give the members of the Bar every consideration hi the conduct of their cases, and expect«l that consideration to be respected.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1919, Page 6
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557MR. T. A. B. BAILEY. Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1919, Page 6
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